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[A cruel thief swiped Brooklyn’s two-headed turtle between 11 a.m. and noon Sunday from a window tank at a Windsor Terrace pet store while the owner was with a customer.
RELATED: BROOKLYN PET STORE HAS TURTLE THAT CAN DISAGREE WITH ITSELF
Sean Casey, owner of the Hamilton Dog House on E. Third St., said it’s crucial that he get the turtle back fast because it requires special...
"Chapter 5: Digital Cacophony" (1996)
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The Nature of Actors
The ubiquity of information and the affordable nature of high technology have led to a dispersal of power in this world. Nation-states have become less important, while individuals and small groups can now have tremendous impact on world events. Everyone communicates via the global net, even using it to do all their shopping by electronically hopping around the...
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[At 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, [a] floor-to-ceiling-size glass panel, encased in a metal frame, fell more than 50 stories from the Bank of America building and shattered on a shed on the opposite side of 42nd Street, officials said.(…)
Since 2006, material has fallen from the Bank of America building site six times, said Ms. Lindquist, including Tuesday’s accident. (…)]
"[A] high-tech vision of the harmonious society...
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[More than two decades after the infamous garbage barge of 1987 moored in Brooklyn after haplessly floating to six states and three foreign countries in search of a dump, barges and abandoned vessels are again trashing New York waterways, city and state officials said. (…)
In January, the National Parks Service estimated that about 190 abandoned vessels — many of them small boats,...
“The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values. Which is why we take for the greater, more painful and less bearable disaster not that which is in fact...
